Wireless Electricity almost here for the masses

[chancy]

Hello everyone:
This was kind of a shock to see in the news! Wireless electricity transfer and Nikola Tesla proved over 100 years ago may soon be a reality for all of us.

Here is the link:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/wireless-electricity-may-soon-power-cell-phones--cars-and-even-heart-pumps-215915863.html

Here is the article:

Wireless electricity may soon power cell phones, cars and even heart pumps

By Eric Pfeiffer - 2 hours 53 minutes ago

This MIT demonstration first showed how electricity can be wirelessly transferred to a device (MIT)

In a few years, you may never have to worry about manually charging your cell phone or paying for gasoline again.

Wireless electricity isn’t a new concept – it was publicly demonstrated over 100 years ago by Nikola Tesla - but has remained elusive in broad commercial applications.

However, a startup company says they are working to change that, with a business model that could make portable power commonplace.

"We're going to transfer power without any kind of wires," Dr. Katie Hall, chief technology officer of WiTricity, told CNN. "I can't even imagine how things will change when we live like that."

WiTricity CEO Eric Giler demonstrated the company’s technology during a TED talk, in which he explained, “This all came from a professor waking up at night to the third night in a row that his wife’s cell phone was beeping because it was running out of battery power. And he was thinking, ‘With all of the electricity that’s out there in the walls, why couldn’t some of that just come into the phone so I could get some sleep?’”

A team of MIT professors then developed what they call “resonant power transfer,” in which a power coil is able to wirelessly transfer electricity to another device containing a similar coil set to the same frequency.

The MIT group was first able to demonstrate the technique in 2007, which led to the formation of WiTricity. Since then, the company has conducted several public demonstrations, where they have used the technology to wirelessly power objects such as batteries, LED lights and cell phones.

"We're not actually putting electricity in the air. What we're doing is putting a magnetic field in the air," Hall told CNN. "When you bring a device into that magnetic field, it induces a current in the device, and by that you're able to transfer power.”

Wireless electricity is widely considered to be safe , but WiTricity and other companies developing similar technology are still trying to find effective ways to efficiently transfer electricity over longer distances.

Other companies are developing their own wireless electricity devices as well. For example, in February, Toyota announced it began testing a wireless recharging station for its hybrid cars in which the vehicle would power up by parking over a charging pad on the ground.

Giles says that if the hurdle of transferring electricity over greater physical distances can be crossed, then wireless electricity would quickly replace the world of cables. And after the technology is in place, manufacturers would then have to install the equipment allowing for the wireless electric transfer to take place.

It would not only free up literal space but could potentially reduce pollution, eliminating the need for disposable batteries. It’s estimated that in the U.S. alone hundreds of thousands of disposal batteries are thrown away each year. Giles says that the current 50 percent efficiency of wireless electricity transfer already greatly exceeds the capability of standard commercial batteries.

Hall says the next big project for her company is working with a medical technology manufacturer to develop a heart pump that recharges without cables.

“Kids will say, 'Why is it called wireless?'" Hall said. "The kids that are growing up in a couple of years will never have to plug anything in again to charge it.”

Enjoy
chancy

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Here ya go:


http://www.mit.edu/~soljacic/wireless_power.html

Wireless Power Transfer



In last few years, our society experienced a silent, but quite dramatic,
revolution in terms of the number of autonomous electronic devices
(e.g. laptops, palm pilots, digital cameras, household robots, etc.)
that we use in our everyday lives. Currently, most of these devices are
powered by batteries, which need to be recharged very often.

This fact motivated us to think whether there exist physical principles
that could enable wireless powering of these and similar devices.

Results of our research on the feasibility of using resonant objects,
strongly coupled through the tails of their non-radiative modes, for
mid-range (i.e. a few meters: e.g. within a room, or a factory pavilion)
wireless power transfer applications seem to be quite encouraging.

At this web-page, you will find a few most relevant materials about
this work of ours.


Theory of Wireless Power Transfer
(Publicly announced in November 2006)


In our first paper, (Annals of Physics) we explained the
theory behind our scheme.

Davide Castelvecchi from American Institute of Physics wrote an
excellent press release, that in simple terms explains our concept.



This work attracted a substantial interest of the press, including:

"Recharging, The Wireless Way," Angela Chang, abcnews.go.com, 22nd December (2006).
"In the future, will our TVs be wireless?" Athima Chansanchai, www.msnbc.msn.com, 14th December (2006).
"Physics promises wireless power," J. Fildes, news.bbc.co.uk (featured on the front page of BBC News), 15th November (2006).
"Cut the cables - Wireless power," The Economist, p. 85, 18th November (2006).
"Wireless Energy Transfer May Power Devices at a Distance," J.R.Minkel, scientificamerican.com, 14th November (2006).
"Man tries wirelessly boosting batteries," Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, 15th November (2006).
"Evanescent coupling' could power gadgets wirelessly," Celeste Biever, NewScientist.com, 15th November (2006).
"Outlets are out," Phil Berardelli, sciencenow.sciencemag.org (daily news of Science Magazine), 14th November (2006).
Additional media coverage of our work on Wireless Energy Transfer include: BBC Radio 4, BBC World Radio, Forbes, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Herald (UK), PC World, USA Today, FOX news, CBS news, ABC local TV, Physics Today, and >300 articles in leading newspapers and radio-reports in numerous countries around the world, including: Germany, Australia, Iran, India, Croatia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Poland, Canada, Netherlands, Tailand, Dominican Republic.

Experiments on Wireless Power Transfer
(Publicly announced on June 07, 2007)


In our experimental paper, (Science) we demonstrated
wireless transfer of 60W of power over 2 meter distances.
You can also download the article's corresponding
Supplementary Online Material, that contains some nice photos of the experiment.

The press release, by Franklin Hadley from Institute for Soldier
Nanotechnologies (MIT) explains in simple terms, yet precisely what we did.



This work also attracted a substantial interest of the press, including:

"TR10: Wireless Power," Jennifer Chu, Technology Review (special issue on The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008), March/April (2008).
"First Step to Wireless Electricity," Jeffrey Winters, Discover Magazine (special issue on 100 Top Science Stories of 2007), January (2008).
"Wireless Energy," Clay Risen, New York Times (included into the special Year in Ideas issue), December 9th (2007).
"MIT Scientists Pave the Way For Wireless Battery Charging," William M. Bulkeley, Wall Street Journal, June 8th (2007).
"MIT powers a lightbulb without wires," USA Today, June 9th (2007).
"MIT team lights it up - without wires," Chris Reidy and Carolyn Johnson, Boston Globe, June 8th (2007).
"Power advance heralds future of gadgets that can be recharged wirelessly," Brian Bergstein, Associated Press, June 7th (2007).
"Wireless Energy Lights Bulb from Seven Feet Away," J.R. Minkel, Scientific American, June 7th (2007).
"Wireless energy promise powers up," Jonathan Fildes, news.bbc.co.uk (featured on the front page of BBC News), June 7th (2007).
Additional media coverage of our experimental work on Wireless Energy Transfer include: BBC Radio, The Times (UK), The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Daily Mail (UK), Popular Mechanics, NPR, Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Le Monde (France), and >500 articles in leading newspapers and radio-reports in numerous countries around the world, including: Australia, Iran, China, Croatia, Greece, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, Brazil.


Ty for thread, I am super excited about this news, lol :)


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/toyota-tests-wireless-charging-for-electric-cars-2014-02-18

Feb. 18, 2014, 5:01 a.m. EST
Toyota tests wireless charging for electric cars
Plug-in hybrids and pure electrics will recharge by parking on top of charger

http://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2014/02/15/Photos/MG/MW-BU755_AW_Toy_20140215174005_MG.jpg?uuid=26276ff8-9692-11e3-b7be-00212803fad6

A new parking assist system has been developed, which will help drivers position their cars over the touch-free charger.
Toyota has announced that it will begin actual verification testing of its new wireless battery-charging system for electric vehicles, one that charges the battery of a plug-in hybrid or a pure-electric car by having the car park on top of it. Toyota’s TM -1.32% charging system uses magnetic-resonance technology. This method transmits electricity by using magnetic resonance that results from changes in magnetic field intensity between a coil positioned on the ground under the car and a receiving coil built into the underside of the vehicle.

This technology would eliminate the need for physically plugging in an electric car or a hybrid. It also has the potential to act as a universal charging station, reducing the need for multiple charging stations and plug standards.

Toyota is also testing a new parking-assist system that would help the driver to position the car in a parking spot for the wireless charging system to charge the car’s battery. In prototype form, this technology has been coupled with Toyota’s existing Intelligent Parking Assist system.

http://nuclearnuttery.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/tesla-generators-on-volcanic-vents-singing-cities-crystal-palaces-and-free-electricity-for-everyone/

Tesla Generators on Volcanic Vents? Singing Cities, Crystal Palaces, and Free Electricity for Everyone

Feb 10 2012


Someone once brought to my attention that there are many volcanic vents open on the ocean floor. What is keeping humans from placing portable generators of some type near these incredibly hot pockets of escaping energy? WHY DRILL when a hole is already there, eh? Even Einstein should have to answer that question. Why did we reach into Hell for power when Mother Earth has everything we needed?

http://i634.photobucket.com/albums/uu64/and4vlad/Unicorns%20and%20Pegasus/legend.jpg

If you were to place a heat-to-electricity generator or a paddle wheel turbine near or above a volcanic vent on the ocean floor, couldn’t you then convert this energy to Extremely Low Frequency and send it out through an antenna? Then at the water’s edge, preferably underneath the surface, you could place your receiver, a metal ball or tower that converts the signal back into heat or whatever you want? A signal on a power line?

Each city block or section could have its own generators and grids.
Without heavy and expensive cables running from the city to the ocean floor, this might work much easier. The trick is finding a freq that doesn’t hurt animals, humans, or cause earthquakes.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/061/9/7/Emerald_City_by_InertiaK.jpg

[RunningDeer]

Hummmm....runway time for the spring line of faraday clothes and EMP head gear.


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/faraday_zps41e15646.jpg

[Cara]

Thanks Chancy and Tesla_WTC_solution for posting those - very exciting indeed.

Do either of you know if tests have been done to fine which frequencies are safe for humans, animals etc.? And if so, any possible frequencies identified?

Many thanks
Searcher

[The Truth Is In There]

Do either of you know if tests have been done to fine which frequencies are safe for humans, animals etc.? And if so, any possible frequencies identified?

there are no harmless frequencies because it's all left-polarized, meaning it's destructive - anti-life technology - same as the energy transmitted by wireless phones, w-lan, radio, tv, etc.

if this happens it's another nail to the grave of all life on earth, probably the last one that's still missing.

[Rosieposie]

Not sure if this is good news or bad lol is it like how everything else sounds wonderful to be wireless but is really not very good for your body and may have unexpected effects? Is it fully researched from a holistic approach and found to be a wise technology? Just asking because humans have a habit of going "oh gosh look what we can do!" And then never looking at the yes we can do, but should we? See nuclear, GM, antibiotics.. well actually almost everything we've ever made has flaws from not looking at things from all angles and not seeing all the pros and cons and looking at a way to make it balanced lol.

If we get anymore emf heavy I think I'm going to have to move to the moon until the age of random half thought out ideas has passed.

But I don't mean to be a sour puss because it could potentially be really cool technology! Just want to know it's actually fully thought out on all it's consequences.

[WhiteFeather]

Or we can connect to the suns energy directly. This is some cool Sh!t. Solar Powered Car Ports.

http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2010/09/23/4563314/0_SolarCarport.jpg
http://www.windsunenergysystems.com/wp-content/gallery/windsun-energy_1/solarcarport.jpg

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

http://images.costco.com/image/media/350-843426-847__1.jpg

People already get cancer etc. from cell phones, and power lines, and microwaves, etc.

Why worry so much about wireless? Surely there will be safety measures.

The really creepy bit about it all is of course, SURVEILLANCE capabilities will skyrocket.

Imagine not having to find a power source or battery for your security cameras.

Or imagine a group of sub-visible particles, forming a lens and watching you a la "PREY".
No extension cord required!

And of course the DARPA drones etc. Will those also be wirelessly powered?


http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/01/080228-F-0528C-004.jpg

p.s. Surgery techniques might improve because of this, btw.

Also IMPLANTS will skyrocket, as there will be no need for long term internal power source.

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/alpha-ims-x-ray-retinal-implant-640x526.jpg

[Tesseract]

Do either of you know if tests have been done to fine which frequencies are safe for humans, animals etc.? And if so, any possible frequencies identified?

there are no harmless frequencies because it's all left-polarized, meaning it's destructive - anti-life technology - same as the energy transmitted by wireless phones, w-lan, radio, tv, etc.

if this happens it's another nail to the grave of all life on earth, probably the last one that's still missing.


Health effects of EM radiation will be dependent not only on frequency, but intensity. For example, the cosmic microwave background radiation is something we are all exposed to, and always have been, but it's very weak. Some wireless devices use similar frequencies at higher power, and there is some concern about the safety of such systems - although the jury is till out. On the extreme end you have directed microwaves (weapons) that can be very harmful indeed.

Any physical object, including the human body, is constantly emitting and receiving black body radiation - which is infra red light at room temperature. If you eliminated incoming infra red radiation you would quickly freeze to death. So, I think that infra red radiation is quite healthy at natural levels :)

As for this resonating coil system, which to me sounds a bit like a normal AC transformer (which is technically wireless energy transfer, except the coils are close together), I don't really know what the hazards would be, if any.

[Brakeman]

Now the masses won't need to walk to an outlet to charge their wireless phones.

[Chrononaut]

Meanwhile on the other side of the world somewhere in Ukraine we have, RIEGT RFC


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtf9IWYDEs

Website: http://www.riegt.org

[The Truth Is In There]

Do either of you know if tests have been done to fine which frequencies are safe for humans, animals etc.? And if so, any possible frequencies identified?

there are no harmless frequencies because it's all left-polarized, meaning it's destructive - anti-life technology - same as the energy transmitted by wireless phones, w-lan, radio, tv, etc.

if this happens it's another nail to the grave of all life on earth, probably the last one that's still missing.


Health effects of EM radiation will be dependent not only on frequency, but intensity. For example, the cosmic microwave background radiation is something we are all exposed to, and always have been, but it's very weak. Some wireless devices use similar frequencies at higher power, and there is some concern about the safety of such systems - although the jury is till out. On the extreme end you have directed microwaves (weapons) that can be very harmful indeed.

Any physical object, including the human body, is constantly emitting and receiving black body radiation - which is infra red light at room temperature. If you eliminated incoming infra red radiation you would quickly freeze to death. So, I think that infra red radiation is quite healthy at natural levels :)

As for this resonating coil system, which to me sounds a bit like a normal AC transformer (which is technically wireless energy transfer, except the coils are close together), I don't really know what the hazards would be, if any.

natural radiation and man-made radiation are two completely different things. on top of that, the emissions of wireless devices are pulsed, something that does not exist in nature and is extremely harmful.

besides (i can be totally wrong but) you seem to miss the most important point - polarization. all waves have a spin, either right or left. dna has a spin, too. human dna and that of most animals and plants has a right-spin and is positively influenced by right-polarized waves. waves like those of man-made electricity and electromagnetic radiation all seem to be left-polarized (at least that is my perception when i focus on any of them), which means they harm everything except those animals and plants whose dna has that same left-spin - basically, this would be animals and plants that thrive where everything else dies, like pathogenic microbes for instance.

you're right about intensity, it does play a part - if there's resonance. on earth today there are already enough different left-polarized frequencies emitted by cell phone towers, radar, radio and tv stations etc. to counter pretty much all natural right-polarized frequencies humans, animals and plants need to live and thrive. that's what makes people, animals and plants sick and eventually kills them. ask the trees, the bees, the whales, the people with allergies, cancers etc. wireless electricity means more disease and death and increasing the speed on our road to ruin.